Complexity

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    Jellyfish Genome Hints That Complexity Isn’t Genetically Complex

    • By Jonathan Lambert
    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . An overarching theme in the story of evolution, at least over the past half billion years or so, is rising complexity. There are other themes, of course, but life has undoubtedly become more complicated since its origin. Early cells globbed together […]
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    Evolution May Be Drunk, But It’s Serious About Making Brains

    • By Amy Maxmen
    Our brains, perched atop a network of nerve cells that ascend the length of our bodies, are thought to have arisen once in an animal hundreds of millions of years ago and then evolved over time. However, new findings suggest instead that brains and nervous systems originated multiple times from scratch. Nautilus Members enjoy an […]
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